When I was younger, two of my friends had a baby. They were new, young, lost parents, trying their best, who would argue a lot, and often around other people. During one argument, I saw the dad lock himself in the bathroom. I remember the mum hammer fisting on the bathroom door, yelling into it, at point blank. And then, between her banging, the mum would look down at their child, who was watching the whole thing play out; and she’d ask, in between tears; “you see what your daddy is doing to us?”, “why is he doing this to your mummy?”, “he doesn’t love us, does he?” If I’m honest, at the time I didn’t think much of it. But now, in hindsight, I understand that what I was witnessing is called ‘parental alienation’. The bangs on the door, the shouts and threats, were acts of abuse against the dad, and the twisted attempts of manipulation rained down upon their child below, were acts of child abuse, aimed at damaging their bond with the father. I am sure, on other days, the same played out in the opposite way, and sadly, it’s not the last time I’ve seen the same happen with other families since. But society is waking up to these behaviors. Parental alienation is now becoming an emerging term in the space of family violence, child abuse, and custody battles… But not everyone agrees with it. In fact, some organisations, shamefully lobby to have the whole thing thrown out as a ‘pseudoscience’, that doesn’t exist, pretending that such a thing is only used by abusive fathers to gain access to children, from whom they are rightly separated. Think about that – So-called domestic violence experts and lawyers, funded by your taxes, are stood in family courts across the country, right now, enabling abusers, and erasing their actions, for their own personal and political gain. Now, a new study published in April 2026, for the first time documents the scale and impact parental alienation has in the UK, and the results will shock you. So what is parental alienation? Have you seen or experienced it? And why are these organisations and individuals trying to erase it? What do you think?
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2026-06-01